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premierepage:

Illustrations de Histoire naturelle des quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens, t.I]. Tome premier / De Sève, dess. ; Leroy, Chevillet, veuve Tardieu, grav. ; Bernard-Germain-Etienne de Lacépède, aut. du texte

(via scientificillustration)

poboh:

Night road, 1922,Walter Gramatté. (German Expressionist Painter (1897 - 1929)

(via mudwerks)

weirdvintage:

British first aid dog provides supplies for the injured during WWI, 1914-1915 (via Library of Congress)

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(Source: piratejennyfromtheblock)

Helen Keller with Kamikaze by Perkins School for the Blind Archive on Flickr.

Via Flickr:
Description: Helen Keller with her Akita dog, Kamikaze. She is standing, and the dog is on his hind legs, with front paws in Helen’s hands. The back of the photographs reads: “Helen Keller and Kamikaze, the Akita dog from Japan.” She received Kamikaze in 1937. After his death within the year, she received his brother, Kenzan in 1938, as an official gift from the Japanese government. Helen Keller said of the Akita dogs, “If ever there was an angel in fur, it was Kamikaze. I know I shall never feel quite the same tenderness for any other pet. The Akita dog has all the qualities that appeal to me — he is gentle, companionable and trusty.”

Creator: Keith Henney

Date: circa 1938

Format: black and white photograph

Digital Identifier: AG62-5-029

Rights: Samuel P. Hayes Research Library, Perkins School for the Blind, Watertown, MA

nicholevanbeek:

Dust jacket by Aaron Douglas

for Claude McKay’s autobiography, A Long Way from Home (1937).

harlemsreflection:

Aaron Douglas, Charleston, gouache and pencil on paper board, ca. 1928

18 x 12 9/16 in. (45.7 x 31.9 cm) 

North Carolina Museum of Art; purchased with funds from the North Carolina State Art Society (Robert F. Phifer  Bequest and the State of North Carolina, by exchange, 2005.15. Reproduced by permission of VAGA. 

An African American modernist artist active in the Harlem Renaissance, Aaron Douglas produced eight gouache illustrations for the English edition of Magie Noir (Black Magic, 1928), a short story collection by the French writer Paul Morand that portrayed black-white interactions in Africa, the West Indies, and the U.S. In the story Charleston, an American woman raised in Charleston justifies her hysteric fear of black men that leads to the brutal murder of a black saxophone player in France—a “purely American tragedy,” writes Morand, “acted inside provincial France.” The painting illustrates Douglas’s blend of Art Deco design with his unique depictions of slit-eyed figures in silhouette, overlaid with sweeping rays and arcs to intensify the movement and spatial boundaries in the work. Enlarge the image to note the slight use of orange accent in the painting.